{"id":29834,"date":"2017-08-30T11:55:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T18:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=29834"},"modified":"2017-08-30T11:55:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T18:55:48","slug":"offline-shopping-best-buy-wants-send-salesperson-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/bens-bytes\/offline-shopping-best-buy-wants-send-salesperson-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Offline shopping? Best Buy wants to send a salesperson to your home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Currently being tested in markets such as Atlanta, Austin, and San Antonio, Best Buy is trying out a free service<\/a> in which a\u00a0salesperson is sent to your home in order to provide\u00a0recommendations about products to purchase. Basically, its a personal shopper for electronics, appliances and everything else Best Buy sells.<\/p>\n

The company is trying out this method of sales since customers seem to spend more money while shopping online at home rather than when they go into a Best Buy location. However, it’s unlikely that all online shoppers would want a personal shopper on hand during the process.<\/p>\n

According to the store, the employees working in this new on-call service are not being paid any form of commission, but rather flat hourly rates. Of course, it’s likely that the associates would push high-margin services with products, such as replacement \/ service plans or new Best Buy credit cards. It’s also likely that\u00a0home installations of said product recommendations will be promoted during the point a sale, which would cost the customer an additional fee.<\/p>\n

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While Best Buy has certainly lost business to Amazon over the last several years, the company is rebounding a bit with a push into\u00a0smart home tech, large appliances and mobile devices. Revenues at U.S. stores has risen this year and beat Wall Street’s expectations. Similar to Walmart, Best Buy is in a good position moving into the high volume sales event that’s the Q4 holiday shopping season.<\/p>\n

One potentially useful\u00a0service that could be incorporated into Best Buy’s new program would be testing a home for Wi-Fi dead spots in order to upgrade to a mesh, wireless networking system. With the increasing bandwidth needs for everything from smart locks to several televisions streaming Netflix at the same time, mesh networking is a must for reliable Wi-Fi in large homes.<\/p>\n

Would you use Best Buy’s new in-home service? Let us know in the comments below.<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Currently being tested in markets such as Atlanta, Austin, and San Antonio, Best Buy is trying out a free service in which a\u00a0salesperson is sent to your home in order to provide\u00a0recommendations about products to purchase. Basically, its a personal shopper for electronics, appliances and everything else Best Buy sells. The company is trying out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[537,459,436,1948],"class_list":["post-29834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bens-bytes","tag-amazon","tag-best-buy","tag-online-shopping","tag-personal-shopper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29834"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29851,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29834\/revisions\/29851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}